To estimate the prevalence of drug use in a representative Australian community. Using a Census district sampling framework supplied by the Australian Bureau of Statistics, we randomly selected dwellings for our survey. A household was defined as all those people living permanently at the postal ...
Intensive sex partying is a framework developed to analyse specific frequent behaviours amongst a small minority of gay men in Sydney, Australia. The behav... M Hurley,G Prestage - 《Culture Health & Sexuality》 被引量: 93发表: 2009年 Vital Statistics: findings from the National Gay Men's ...
The number of intentional lethal self-poisoning acts may be underestimated because a sizeable proportion of those who commit them reach hospital alive, but then die from complications. These deaths are not reported as suicides in mortality statistics. The long-term impact of chronic liver damage fro...
As NORML (2002) noted, given such statistics on the prevalence of marijuana use and the use of other illegal drugs, for the majority of marijuana users, the substance is a "terminus" rather than a gateway. A National Academy of Sciences report (1999) observed, "there is no evidence that...
Drug use is one of the most important problems in modern society. According to Breakdown Britain 2006, 'Britain is experiencing an explosion in addiction' (Duncan Smith 2006: 40). Based on statistics, one and three quarters million young people in Britain use cocaine. Over the past seven year...
A further high prevalence of parenteral nutrition (84 to 100%), transfusion of blood products (91 to 100%) and vitamin use (16 to 78%) was described. Higher degrees of immaturity and rates of complications were associated with an increased drug usage up to a mean of 17 different drugs ...
SYDNEY, Aug. 27 (Xinhua) -- New research has highlighted the growing problem of narcotics use Down Under, with Australia's annual overdose report for 2019 indicating a 38 percent increase in drug-induced deaths between 2001 to 2017.
He is now a scientific analyst on drug use, responsible for the key epidemiological indicator ‘Prevalence and patterns of drug use.’ He has also worked at the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) as a statistician in the Statistics and Surveys Section, being responsible for ...
We aimed to determine the prevalence of drug and polydrug use in people living with HIV in Austria for the first time for which a two center cross-sectional study was performed. Participants were recruited from consecutive patients during their regularly
Women experience adverse drug reactions, ADRs, nearly twice as often as men, yet the role of sex as a biological factor in the generation of ADRs is poorly understood. Most drugs currently in use were approved based on clinical trials conducted on men, s